--And afterwards,
Non cui profundum
Caecitas
lumen dedit
Dircaeus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, &c.
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Poe - 5 |
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[_During the last few lines_ ADMETUS _has been looking at the
veiled Woman and, though he does not
consciously
recognize her,
feels a strange emotion overmastering him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But angels say, on yesterday,
Just as the dawn was red,
One little boat o'erspent with gales
Retrimmed its masts,
redecked
its sails
Exultant, onward sped!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then inland just where the small meadow begins,
Well
bulwarked
with boulders that jut in the tide,
Lies safe beyond storm-beat the harbour in sun.
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Sappho |
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" cried everybody
streaming
round.
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Tennyson |
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Marches he along the plain,
To and fro, and scatters wide
From his hands the
precious
grain;
Moody, I, to see him stride.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The sand runs,
monarchs!
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Hugo - Poems |
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RETROSPECT
"I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES"
I
I HAVE lived with shades so long,
And talked to them so oft,
Since forth from cot and croft
I went mankind among,
That sometimes they
In their dim style
Will pause awhile
To hear my say;
II
And take me by the hand,
And lead me through their rooms
In the To-be, where Dooms
Half-wove and
shapeless
stand:
And show from there
The dwindled dust
And rot and rust
Of things that were.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There in a meadow by the river's side,
A flock of nymphs I chanced to espy,
All lovely daughters of the flood thereby,
With goodly
greenish
locks all loose untied
As each had been a bride;
And each one had a little wicker basket
Made of fine twigs, entrailed curiously,
In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket,
And with fine fingers cropt full feateously
The tender stalks on high.
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Golden Treasury |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Di reverenza il viso e li atti addorna,
si che i diletti lo 'nviarci in suso;
pensa che questo di mai non
raggiorna!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Come, stretch your wings or look
out for
squalls!
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Aristophanes |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Wherefore
it seems that soul
Hath both a natal and funeral hour.
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Lucretius |
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Oh
abbondante
grazia ond' io presunsi
ficcar lo viso per la luce etterna,
tanto che la veduta vi consunsi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"Tzar," he said, in a
trembling
voice, "Tzar, she is not under
restraint; she is in bed in her room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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whom three realms obey,
Dost
sometimes
counsel take--and sometimes tea.
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Alexander Pope |
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--"Love is my name,"
He
thankless
cried, "I hither came
"To tame thee.
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La Fontaine |
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I can provide you with the means for flight:
The only guards
surrounding
you are mine.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The same Jesuit
found people at Caminam who knew the
doctrines
of Christianity, which
they said were preached to their fathers, by John, the disciple of
Thomas.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Shakespeare |
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if this West should own some other Pole,
And with his tangled ways perplex my soul
Until the maze grow mortal, and I die
Where
distraught
Nature clean hath gone astray,
On earth some other wit than Time's at play,
Some other God than mine above the sky!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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-- As morn by morn I rise with fresh delight,
Time through my
casement
cheerily doth call
`Nature is new, 'tis birthday every day,
Come feast with me, let no man say me nay,
Whate'er befall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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Imagists |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a
hypocrite
sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the
heightening
year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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195: 'Shal
distaste euery
vnsalted
line, in their fly-blowne Comedies.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The King's mind is a summer over us;
Thou with a storm wilt fill him, and the hail
That
shatters
thee will leave us bruised and weeping.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Oh, who knows the truth,
How she
perished
in her youth,
And like a queen went down
Pale in her royal crown:
How she went up to glory
From the sea-foam chill and hoary, 70
From the sea-depth black and riven
To the calm that is in Heaven?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To make our demon's
wretchedness
complete,
Honesta's relatives, from ev'ry street,
He seemed to marry, since he daily fed
The father, mother, sister (fit to wed,)
And little brother, whom he sent to school;
While MISS he portioned to a wealthy fool.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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I have been
thinking
it this
good while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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At his funeral the rage and grief of the
soldiers
broke out into 51
another mutiny.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Crouched on the staircase overhead,
Like ghost she gloats, her lean hand laid
On alabaster balustrade,
And gazes on and on
Down on that
wondrous
to and fro
Till finger and foot are cold as snow,
And half the night is gone;
And dazzled eyes are sore bestead;
Nods drowsily the sleek-locked head;
And, vague and far, spins, fading out,
That rainbow-coloured, reeling rout,
And, with faint sighs, her spirit flies
Into deep sleep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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LXXVIII
The hippogryph he might have had at need,
Who next below good Rabican was tied,
But that the dame had cried to him, "Take heed,
Thou know'st how ill that courser is to ride";
And said the following day the winged steed
'Twas her
intention
from that realm to guide,
Where he should be instructed at his leisure,
To rein and run him every where at pleasure:
LXXIX
Nor, if he took him not, would he suggest
Suspicion of the intended flight: The peer
This while performed Melissa's every hest,
Who, still invisible, was at his ear.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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BOOK II
PROEM
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the winds
Roll up its waste of waters, from the land
To watch another's labouring anguish far,
Not that we joyously delight that man
Should thus be smitten, but because 'tis sweet
To mark what evils we
ourselves
be spared;
'Tis sweet, again, to view the mighty strife
Of armies embattled yonder o'er the plains,
Ourselves no sharers in the peril; but naught
There is more goodly than to hold the high
Serene plateaus, well fortressed by the wise,
Whence thou may'st look below on other men
And see them ev'rywhere wand'ring, all dispersed
In their lone seeking for the road of life;
Rivals in genius, or emulous in rank,
Pressing through days and nights with hugest toil
For summits of power and mastery of the world.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Form is half their art and
crucially
their poems were set to music, a large amount of which survives.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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45
VI
In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet,
And lickt her lilly hands with fawning tong,
As he her wronged
innocence
did weet.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Why do the seasons bring
Distempers
with them?
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Lucretius |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He hath beene in vnusuall Pleasure,
And sent forth great
Largesse
to your Offices.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The pad of his strong feet, that
ceaseless
sound
Of supple tread behind the iron bands,
Is like a dance of strength circling around,
While in the circle, stunned, a great will stands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whene'er a brilliant courtly dame
Presents her quarto amiably,
Despair and anger seize on me,
And a malicious epigram
Trembles upon my lips from spite,--
And
madrigals
I'm asked to write!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This is the reward for my
excessive
care:
I search for my self: and yet find no one there.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Milton |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is descriptive of the first manifestation of
doubt and cynicism in his
youthful
mind, allegorically as the
visits of a "demon.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their
consenting
influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect creature lent their aid.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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framed to please
All nations, customs, kindreds,
languages!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Fast fix'd in mute
attention
to his notes
We stood, when lo!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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All have not appeared in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp
sorcerers
and obey them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Not far aloof,
Slipped from his head, the garlands lay, and there
By its worn handle hung a
ponderous
cup.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Row, a long row to hoe, _a
difficult
task_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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An angel had not
startled
him,
Alighted from heaven's burning rim
To breathe from glory in the Dim;
Much less a lady riding slow
Upon a palfrey white as snow,
And smooth as a snow-cloud could go.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Soon, {23a} then, saw the sage companions
who waited with Hrothgar,
watching
the flood,
that the tossing waters turbid grew,
blood-stained the mere.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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(Bearded or smooth, to her that gave him suck
The man is always child)--Stay, here's a brow
Split by the Zouaves'
bullets!
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
She gave the word: the sun outbroke,
All
Froomside
shone, the hedgebirds raised a song;
And later Hodge, upon the midday stroke,
Returned the lane along,
Low murmuring: "O this bitter scene,
And thrice accurst horizon hung with gloom!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He ate and drank the
precious
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lewis Carroll |
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The Five Carlins
An
Election
Ballad.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now I've
bartered
here for booty of treasure
the last of my life, so look ye well
to the needs of my land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LXXVII
Thy glass will show thee how thy
beauties
wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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400
XLVI
At last yledd with farre reported praise,
Which flying fame
throughout
the world had spred,
Of doughty knights, whom Faery land did raise,
That noble order?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
rejoined
she; "he is not my husband.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She stretched up tall to
overlook
the light
That hung in both hands hot against her skirt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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He a
bewildered
answer gave,
Drowned in the sullen moaning wave,
Lost in the echoes of the cave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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POEMS OF THE WAR
THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD
OCTOBER, 1861
Along a river-side, I know not where,
I walked one night in mystery of dream;
A chill creeps
curdling
yet beneath my hair,
To think what chanced me by the pallid gleam
Of a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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ng, was
assassinated
in broad daylight by an agent
of the revolutionary leader Wu Yuan-chi.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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O thou, whose chariot rolled on Fortune's wheel,
Triumphant
Sylla!
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Two
illustrations
will make this clear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
Your grace, sweet Muses, shields me still
On Sabine heights, or lets me range
Where cool Praeneste, Tibur's hill,
Or liquid Baiae
proffers
change.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I know what secret flame the marrow fries,
How in the veins a dormant fever lies;
Till, fann'd to fury by contagious breath,
It gains
tremendous
head, and ends in death.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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So Philip's son,
inflamed
with a miss,
Burned down the palace of Persepolis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with
solitary
genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in thousands blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Townsmen
of Moscow!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XVII
"In guerdon for this present, I request
That thou to me upon thy faith wilt swear,
Thou never wilt my
chastity
molest
In word or deed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What stays with you latest and
deepest?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Many broad lands with you have I retrieved
Which Charles holds, who hath the great white beard;
Wherefore
that King so proud and rich is he.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword
His Wife, his Babes, and all
vnfortunate
Soules
That trace him in his Line.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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from my hand and began unmercifully
criticizing
each
verse, each word, cutting me up in the most spiteful way.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Being but a mortal, can you
be
stronger
than a god?
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Aristophanes |
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The sails drop; we swing back to the
oars; without delay the sailors
strongly
toss up the foam, and sweep
through the green water.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Was I not once the son of
Revolution?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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That
guardian
of gold he should grapple not, urged we,
but let him lie where he long had been
in his earth-hall waiting the end of the world,
the hest of heaven.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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